Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 81 54
Rank change year-on-year +1 -27 -22
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,735 2,292 2,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.51% 2.93% 4.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.95% 3.61% 5.24%
Number of salaries quoted 827 1,365 2,318
10th Percentile £51,250 £43,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £86,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,500 £110,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% -7.41% +8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 43,869 63,416 56,859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.70% 81.19% 94.35%
Number of salaries quoted 24,728 36,039 42,828
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +5 1,583 £75,000 +15.38% 725
UK excluding London -9 1,040 £70,000 +12.00% 527
Work from Home +21 936 £70,000 +14.37% 523
London +19 669 £80,250 -5.59% 327
North of England +18 464 £70,000 +14.37% 158
North West +51 419 £70,000 +13.17% 77
South East -39 194 £70,000 +16.67% 177
Midlands +35 137 £70,000 +7.69% 65
Scotland -11 110 £77,500 +19.23% 22
West Midlands +41 79 £70,000 +7.69% 37
South West -20 69 £60,000 - 47
East Midlands +29 56 £65,000 +8.33% 23
East of England -17 55 £62,500 -3.85% 25
Yorkshire -59 38 £70,000 +14.37% 55
Wales +5 14 £52,000 -5.45% 27
North East -8 7 £43,375 -29.13% 26
Northern Ireland -2 3 £45,000 -30.77% 13

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 200 (11.53%) Confluence
2 29 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (1.33%) CMS
4 22 (1.27%) Apache
5 17 (0.98%) Apache Spark
6 13 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 11 (0.63%) JBoss
8 10 (0.58%) Headless CMS
9 9 (0.52%) Appian
10 7 (0.40%) IIS
10 7 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
11 6 (0.35%) nginx
12 3 (0.17%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.17%) SharePoint
12 3 (0.17%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.12%) CICS
13 2 (0.12%) Drupal
13 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.12%) WordPress
14 1 (0.058%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 15 (0.86%) Maya
2 4 (0.23%) PlantUML
3 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.058%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.35%) SAP FS
5 4 (0.23%) Shopify
6 2 (0.12%) Endur
6 2 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.058%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.058%) Eikon
7 1 (0.058%) RMDS
7 1 (0.058%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,083 (62.42%) AWS
2 982 (56.60%) Azure
3 532 (30.66%) GCP
4 187 (10.78%) Serverless
5 134 (7.72%) Azure DevOps
6 112 (6.46%) GitHub
7 97 (5.59%) SaaS
8 73 (4.21%) Amazon EC2
9 71 (4.09%) Amazon S3
10 65 (3.75%) Amazon ECS
11 60 (3.46%) Amazon EKS
12 59 (3.40%) AWS Lambda
13 48 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
14 41 (2.36%) PaaS
15 40 (2.31%) Azure Service Bus
16 39 (2.25%) Cloud Computing
17 36 (2.07%) Amazon SQS
17 36 (2.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 35 (2.02%) Power Platform
19 33 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.04%) HTTP
2 17 (0.98%) Firewall
2 17 (0.98%) Network Security
3 7 (0.40%) WAN
4 6 (0.35%) DNS
4 6 (0.35%) Internet
5 5 (0.29%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.23%) 3GPP
6 4 (0.23%) 5G
6 4 (0.23%) AMQP
7 2 (0.12%) Broadband
7 2 (0.12%) LAN
7 2 (0.12%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.058%) 4G
8 1 (0.058%) Diameter Protocol
8 1 (0.058%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.058%) SAN
8 1 (0.058%) SCTP
8 1 (0.058%) SSL
8 1 (0.058%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 372 (21.44%) SQL Server
2 197 (11.35%) NoSQL
3 176 (10.14%) MongoDB
4 169 (9.74%) PostgreSQL
5 101 (5.82%) Relational Database
6 63 (3.63%) MySQL
7 55 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
8 52 (3.00%) DynamoDB
9 48 (2.77%) Azure SQL Database
10 43 (2.48%) RDBMS
11 39 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
12 32 (1.84%) Redis
13 29 (1.67%) Big Data
14 24 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
15 21 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
16 14 (0.81%) Apache Cassandra
16 14 (0.81%) Data Lake
17 13 (0.75%) Power BI
18 11 (0.63%) Tableau
19 9 (0.52%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 317 (18.27%) JIRA
2 310 (17.87%) GitLab
3 287 (16.54%) Maven
4 277 (15.97%) Selenium
5 276 (15.91%) SonarQube
6 262 (15.10%) Cucumber
7 259 (14.93%) Bitbucket
7 259 (14.93%) Sonatype Nexus
8 208 (11.99%) Git
9 147 (8.47%) Jenkins
10 86 (4.96%) JUnit
11 53 (3.05%) Mockito
12 40 (2.31%) JMeter
13 25 (1.44%) Octopus Deploy
14 22 (1.27%) Visual Studio
15 20 (1.15%) Team Foundation Server
16 19 (1.10%) CircleCI
17 17 (0.98%) MSBuild
18 13 (0.75%) Postman
19 12 (0.69%) DbUnit
General
1 643 (37.06%) Finance
2 567 (32.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 429 (24.73%) Banking
4 303 (17.46%) Social Skills
5 214 (12.33%) Law
6 148 (8.53%) Retail
7 112 (6.46%) Investment Banking
8 100 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
9 90 (5.19%) Corporate Banking
10 87 (5.01%) Public Sector
11 72 (4.15%) Marketing
12 38 (2.19%) Financial Institution
13 34 (1.96%) Games
14 30 (1.73%) Dutch Language
14 30 (1.73%) French Language
15 28 (1.61%) Billing
15 28 (1.61%) Front Office
16 24 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
17 21 (1.21%) Legal
18 19 (1.10%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 733 (42.25%) Software Engineer
2 443 (25.53%) Senior
3 429 (24.73%) Developer
4 271 (15.62%) Senior Software Engineer
5 253 (14.58%) Lead
6 212 (12.22%) Architect
7 137 (7.90%) Java Developer
8 123 (7.09%) Java Engineer
9 114 (6.57%) .NET Developer
10 104 (5.99%) Java Software Engineer
11 93 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
12 78 (4.50%) Senior Developer
13 66 (3.80%) Lead Developer
14 64 (3.69%) Full-Stack Developer
15 56 (3.23%) Lead Software Engineer
16 51 (2.94%) C# Developer
17 48 (2.77%) Senior Architect
18 44 (2.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 36 (2.07%) Cloud Engineer
19 36 (2.07%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 526 (30.32%) Spring
2 514 (29.63%) .NET
3 491 (28.30%) Spring Boot
4 488 (28.13%) React
5 483 (27.84%) Kafka
6 399 (23.00%) HTML
7 386 (22.25%) RESTful
8 354 (20.40%) CSS
9 348 (20.06%) REST
10 283 (16.31%) Node.js
11 280 (16.14%) JPA
12 258 (14.87%) Redux
13 249 (14.35%) Hibernate
14 174 (10.03%) AngularJS
15 133 (7.67%) .NET Core
16 129 (7.44%) HTML5
17 109 (6.28%) CSS3
18 106 (6.11%) Web Services
19 98 (5.65%) Jest
19 98 (5.65%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 354 (20.40%) Product Ownership
2 341 (19.65%) Enterprise Software
3 334 (19.25%) Cloud Native
4 201 (11.59%) Self-Motivation
5 180 (10.37%) Linux Command Line
6 178 (10.26%) Cyberattack
7 162 (9.34%) Distributed Systems
8 46 (2.65%) Public Cloud
9 45 (2.59%) Mobile App
10 43 (2.48%) Algorithms
10 43 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
11 39 (2.25%) Management Information System
12 33 (1.90%) Onboarding
13 32 (1.84%) Virtual Team
14 31 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
15 30 (1.73%) Distributed Architecture
16 20 (1.15%) Data Structures
17 19 (1.10%) Reinsurance
18 18 (1.04%) Blockchain
18 18 (1.04%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 253 (14.58%) Linux
2 39 (2.25%) Windows
3 20 (1.15%) Unix
4 12 (0.69%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.40%) Android
6 6 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.12%) zOS
9 1 (0.058%) Debian
9 1 (0.058%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,110 (63.98%) Agile
2 879 (50.66%) Software Engineering
3 844 (48.65%) CI/CD
4 766 (44.15%) DevOps
5 520 (29.97%) Containerisation
6 487 (28.07%) Mentoring
7 448 (25.82%) Full-Stack Development
8 437 (25.19%) SDLC
9 410 (23.63%) Test Automation
10 396 (22.82%) TDD
11 345 (19.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 342 (19.71%) User Experience
13 340 (19.60%) Scrum
14 332 (19.14%) Front End Development
15 305 (17.58%) Performance Optimisation
16 271 (15.62%) Machine Learning
17 269 (15.50%) Clean Code
18 222 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
19 214 (12.33%) Cloud Security
20 213 (12.28%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 928 (53.49%) Java
2 735 (42.36%) JavaScript
3 564 (32.51%) SQL
4 476 (27.44%) Python
5 347 (20.00%) C#
6 251 (14.47%) TypeScript
7 248 (14.29%) Go
8 197 (11.35%) Rust
9 190 (10.95%) C++
10 45 (2.59%) Kotlin
10 45 (2.59%) Shell Script
11 27 (1.56%) PowerShell
12 23 (1.33%) PHP
13 19 (1.10%) Scala
14 15 (0.86%) PL/SQL
15 13 (0.75%) Bash
16 12 (0.69%) Apex Code
17 10 (0.58%) Bicep
18 8 (0.46%) Groovy
19 7 (0.40%) C
Qualifications
1 297 (17.12%) Security Cleared
2 236 (13.60%) AWS Certification
3 213 (12.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 199 (11.47%) Degree
5 191 (11.01%) DV Cleared
6 182 (10.49%) AWS Certified Developer
7 91 (5.24%) SC Cleared
8 72 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 60 (3.46%) Master's Degree
10 40 (2.31%) Azure Certification
11 26 (1.50%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (0.52%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (0.35%) CISM
13 6 (0.35%) CISSP
13 6 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 5 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 346 (19.94%) QA
2 114 (6.57%) Accessibility
3 54 (3.11%) GDPR
4 24 (1.38%) HIPAA
5 17 (0.98%) Data Quality
6 16 (0.92%) NIST
7 13 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.75%) SLA
8 11 (0.63%) SOC 2
9 10 (0.58%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.35%) IFRS
10 6 (0.35%) IFRS 17
10 6 (0.35%) Solvency II
11 5 (0.29%) WCAG
12 4 (0.23%) SEPA
13 3 (0.17%) CDISC
13 3 (0.17%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.17%) NCSC
14 1 (0.058%) EMIR
System Software
1 673 (38.79%) Docker
2 13 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (0.69%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.23%) Postfix
6 2 (0.12%) HDFS
6 2 (0.12%) KVM
6 2 (0.12%) Terminal Server
6 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.12%) vSphere
6 2 (0.12%) Xen
7 1 (0.058%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.058%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 702 (40.46%) Kubernetes
2 153 (8.82%) Terraform
3 54 (3.11%) Grafana
4 51 (2.94%) Prometheus
5 38 (2.19%) Ansible
6 29 (1.67%) Kibana
7 16 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (0.63%) Argo
8 11 (0.63%) Istio
9 10 (0.58%) Progress Chef
10 8 (0.46%) Mesos
11 4 (0.23%) Kubeflow
11 4 (0.23%) Puppet
12 2 (0.12%) CA Endevor
12 2 (0.12%) CFEngine
12 2 (0.12%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.058%) Kiali
13 1 (0.058%) Nagios
13 1 (0.058%) Nessus
Vendors
1 248 (14.29%) Solace
2 196 (11.30%) Microsoft
3 51 (2.94%) Oracle
4 43 (2.48%) Google
5 39 (2.25%) Splunk
6 37 (2.13%) Dynatrace
7 35 (2.02%) Guidewire
8 30 (1.73%) Salesforce
9 19 (1.10%) OpenAI
10 16 (0.92%) Atlassian
10 16 (0.92%) SAP
11 12 (0.69%) BiZZdesign
11 12 (0.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 11 (0.63%) VMware
13 10 (0.58%) ServiceNow
13 10 (0.58%) YouTube
14 9 (0.52%) Black Duck
14 9 (0.52%) UiPath
15 8 (0.46%) Facebook
15 8 (0.46%) SolarWinds